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/home#

This filesystem is mounted on /home on all clusters.

Every user gets a personal /home folder in /home/<gaspar_user> the first time they connect to any cluster.

Features#

  • Data fully replicated
  • Fully backed up with no charges
  • 100 GB default quota for every user

Usage#

/home holds peronal data of every users. Each user folder is exclusively accessible by him only.

The entire filesystem is replicated so data exists twice on two storage phyical racks. Additionally, content is fully backed up every day.

All This makes /home a very safe filesystem so you can trust it to hold personal critical material.

Data retention#

Data will be erased after two years of inactivity or 6 months after leaving EPFL, whichever occurs first.

Prices#

/home is free of charge.